Originally Posted by motordavid

Good question, BigR.
I suspect that somewhere in the previous collective bargaining agreement, with GM/FoMoCo/Chrysler,
(a tome of thousands of pages), is some boilerplate about the hourly employees being represented by
the UAW and thus, the UAW group is the group of workers that work there...if that translates.

I'll skip doing a search to C&P union/strike breaking stuff historically, but I do have first hand knowledge
of seeing a large Donnelly printing plant being struck, locking out it's striking workers and bringing in several
hundred "scabs" to keep it running. Not sure GM could come up with 73,000 workers in a short time,
or wouldya wanna buy that Cadillac CTS as it first rolled off the live having been done by a horde of new hires
off the street?!

But, in a word, no...car mfg'ers do not have to employ only workers that are unionized or, represented by the UAW;
most, if not all of the "offshore mfg'ers" do not have much if any union representation and even less UAW representation.

If memory serves, some NUMMI plants and a Mitsubishi sub ass'bly plant has some UAW representation. The Toyota
plants have thus far escaped the UAW's greedy tentacles, but they have them in their sights, I'm sure.
My Qtr's up.
BR,mD